related works
Cascade : for two pianos / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
2pf
Kleine suite : voor sopraan en orkest, 1942 / Arij Verhaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 2222 2200 timp perc (cel ad lib.) hp str
4 Vocalises : for mezzo-soprano and chamber orchestra / Sem Dresden
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m fl cl fg perc pf vl vla
Holland / [tekst] E.J. Potgieter, Joh. Bordewijk-Roepman
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2322 4330 perc hp str
composition
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Author(s):
Knehans, Katarina
(Text writer/Librettist)
Knehans, Douglas
(Composer)
Description:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans